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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1949
Page
9
Gillespie County Fair Association convened a round table with farm and ranch leaders to discuss annual agricultural exhibits. The lively meeting aimed to align fair goals with rural interests, strengthen cooperation, and grow the fair into a larger Texas exposition.
The Sheep & Goat Raiser article urges a shift from pampered fat stock to practical ranching and grassland training. It urges youth to learn breeding, feed efficiency, and conservation, favoring carcass contests over overly fat show animals and stressing livestock shows as secondary to core farming education.
A compact patchwork of Fredericksburg happenings from March 12 to March 22 1926 includes local visits by York Ratliff and W Hitzfelds note of a 70th birthday, the death of Mathias Fassel 75, Carl Striegier family birthdays, baseball plans for St Louis Cardinals vs Des Moines Demons, and civic notes on Chamber of Commerce meetings. Also featured are farm bureau programs at A and M College and a primer on Madrid and Hubam sweet clover for soil protection and grazing with seeding guidance.
Alfred Petsch argues that freedom of thought and speech is the core American heritage and citizens must speak honestly. He criticizes public officials who lie and weighs Truman's tax and labor policy, opposing poll tax repeal and restrictive housing or employment laws as overreach while praising higher taxes and federal revenue during prosperity.
Cappy Miller and his son Squint devise a brush clearing method using two tractors spaced thirty feet apart linked by a heavy chain. They pull parallel passes then return over the same path, pulling out brush roots and all. The technique saves time and works well.
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